Major Expositions
KGSS III:106-113
[On "Provisional" and "False"]
106 The term
provisional refers to those of the Path of Sages and those of the
meditative and nonmeditative practices within the Pure Land path.
107 Hence,
the Master of Kuang-ming temple states:
The gateways of the Buddhist teaching are many, numbering eighty-four
thousand,
For the capacities of sentient beings are not the same.
108 Further,
he states:
Provisional gateways of expedience are in essence the same, without
any difference.
109 Further,
he states:
The various dharma-gates are not the same; they are called teachings
of gradual attainment,
And one realizes nonorigination only through a myriad kalpas of
painful practice.
110 The term
false refers to the sixty-two views and the ninety-five wrong paths.
111 The Nirvana
Sutra states:
The World-honored one always teaches, "All nonbuddhists learn
the ninety-five kinds [of wrong paths] and fall into the evil courses."
112 The Master
of Kuang-ming temple states:
The ninety-five [of wrong paths] all defile the world;
The single way of the Buddha alone is pure and tranquil.
113 I know
truly how grievous it is that I, Gutoku Shinran, am sinking in an
immense ocean of desires and attachments and am lost in vast mountains
of fame and advantage, so that I rejoice not at all at entering
the stage of the truly settled, and feel no happiness at coming
nearer the realization of true enlightenment. How ugly it is! How
wretched!
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